Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning for Mangrove Systems: WWF has developed a methodology that can be used worldwide for assessing the vulnerability of mangrove ecosystems to the impacts of climate change and for developing adaptation strategies. This manual brings together a wealth of on-the-ground experience and scientific knowledge to help conservation practitioners, protected area managers and other stakeholders who are responsible for protecting and managing the world’s mangrove forests in a changing climate.

CRiSTAL Forests Community-Based Risk Screening ToolCRiSTAL Forests is a decision-support tool that aims to provide a logical, user-friendly process to help users better understand the links between climate-related risks, ecosystem services and people's livelihoods. In doing so, successful adaptation strategies can be developed and better supported the local level. CRiSTAL Forests is a specialized version of CRiSTAL (Community-based Risk Screening Tool - Adaptation and Livelihoods).

Landscape Outcome Assessment Methodology (LOAM): This approach, developed by WWF, is aimed at enabling those working on landscape scale initiatives to be better able to measure, monitor and communicate the nature and extent to which a landscape is changing over time with respect to a small number of agreed conservation and livelihood outcomes.

Catalog of Conservation Social Science Tools: This Catalog aims to provide conservation practitioners with greater capacity to integrate social sciences into their work by linking practitioners to key social science tools and methodological approaches, and by providing context for these tools.

Forest Quality: Assessing forests at a landscape scale: This book proposes a method for assessing forest quality at a landscape scale, through working with stakeholders to identify important aspects of quality and proposing ways of assessing these. It divides "quality" into three main elements: authenticity, environmental benefits and social and economic benefits.

Planning tools

The Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA) has been developed through a collaboration of six institutions with input generously provided by scientists and practitioners from multiple disciplines. The toolkit provides accessible guidance on low-cost methods for how to evaluate the benefits people receive from nature at particular sites in order to generate information that can be used to influence decision making.

TESSA is primarily aimed at conservation practitioners, although the methods may be applicable to a wide range of users, including natural resource managers (e.g. forestry, fisheries, water managers), land-use planners, development organisations (e.g. for poverty alleviation), and the private sector.

Tools for Integrating Conservation and Development: The goal of CIFOR's project 'Tools for Integrating Conservation and Development' is to help agencies to design and implement better landscape-level conservation and development projects by learning from the successes and failures of past initiatives and understanding the trade-offs and synergies between livelihoods and conservation.

Poverty-Forest Linkages Toolkit: PROFOR has developed a 'Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit' to build better knowledge on the relationship between poverty and forests, and to facilitate relevant data collection and analysis.

Valuation tools

Circular Economy Toolkit: An online resource offering companies a free step-by-step guide to increasing the lifecycle and reusability of their products, thereby making their businesses less environmentally wasteful. features various free, downloadable presentations and an assessment tool which enables firms to identify which parts of their businesses are most profligate and least sustainable.

Economic Tools for the Management of Marine Protected Areas in Eastern Africa: This guide provides a framework for analysing the economics of marine protected areas including identifying the benefits and costs of marine protected areas, valuing those benefits and costs, analysing the distribution of costs and benefits and therefore the need for incentives and financial mechanisms, and integrating economic measures into protected area management.

Collections of tools

Earth conservation toolbox: The earth conservation toolbox is a multi-organisational initiative building an open-access database of tools and methodologies to help field programmes, governments and others implement the ecosystem approach to conservation.

UNEP Environmental Management Tools: UNEP has collected a variety of procedures, methodologies, and instruments to assist individuals and organisations to undertake various environmental management tasks, including environmental assessments.

PCLG resources of potential interest to UCCRI’s website users

With more than 1900 titles, this bibliographic database provides a comprehensive list of literature on conservation-poverty linkages. Search by key word or by theme. Alternatively sign up to receive our Journal Digest and we will send you the most recently added publications straight to your email.

This database lists more than 500 organisations working on conservation-poverty linkages, including donor agencies, conservation organisations, NGOs, indigenous people's organisations and grassroots groups. The database can be searched by key word or by organisation type.

This database lists international initiatives designed to explore the links between conservation and poverty reduction from broad based poverty-environment programmes to more focused single-issue agendas. The database can be searched by key word or by implementing organisation.

As part of a project on biodiversity-poverty evidence, IIED has conducted a systematic review of the literature on biodiversity and poverty alleviation. This database includes details of the studies reviewed, the research design and the key issues covered.

The PCLG produces two e-bulletins to keep our members up-to-date on the latest poverty and conservation news, as well as the latest journals and publications from the conservation and poverty sectors. Sign up here to receive your updates.

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